The tit-for-tat trade dispute between the US and China has moved up a gear. The Trump administration is imposing tariffs of 25% on 1,333 Chinese products – imports worth about $50bn (£36bn) a year.
China immediately hit back, imposing 25% tariff on 106 items imported from the US, also worth $50bn a year.
The US list ranges from torpedoes to dishwashers, in retaliation for what it claims is decades of intellectual property theft. The full list is here.
The Chinese list includes soybeans – America’s biggest agricultural export to China, worth $14bn last year. The full list (in Chinese) is here.
The US list includes:
- Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war
- Rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, torpedo tubes and similar
- Vaccines for humans
- Vaccines for animals
- Golf carts
- Sterile surgical catgut
- Dental fillings
- Fishing boats
- Mirrors
- Hearing aids
- Antifreeze and prepared de-icers
- Aircraft tyres
- Catheters
- Syringes with or without needles
- Train rails or tramway tracks
- Ships’ logs and depth-sounding apparatus
- Vessels, including lifeboats other than rowboats
- Balloons, dirigibles and non-powered aircraft, gliders and hang-gliders
- Nuclear reactors
- Central-heating boilers
- Printed circuit assemblies for television cameras
- Bakery ovens, including biscuit ovens
- Refrigerating or freezing equipment
- Cooking stoves, ranges and ovens, other than microwave, for making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food, not used for domestic purposes
- Cassette players (non-recording)
- Catalytic converters
- Dishwashers
- Machinery for packing or wrapping pipe tobacco, candy and cigarette packages; combination candy cutting and wrapping machines
- Ball bearings
- Fire extinguishers, whether charged or uncharged
- Tower cranes
- Chairlifts and ski draglines
- Snowplows and snowblowers
- Cash registers
- Chainsaws
- Plows for soil preparation or cultivation
- Haymaking machinery and straw balers
- Sewing machine needles
- Milking machines
- Poultry incubators
- Beekeeping machinery
- Bookbinding machinery
- Guns, howitzers and mortars
- Military rifles
- Aircraft seats
The Chinese list includes
- Yellow soybeans
- Black soybeans
- Other corn
- Cornflour
- Uncombed cotton
- Durum wheat
- Fresh and cold beef (whole head or half)
- Fresh and cold beef with bones
- Frozen boneless beef
- Unstemmed tobacco
- Tobacco cigars
- Tobacco cigarettes
- Cigar and cigarettes with tobacco substitute
- Hookah materials
- Frozen orange juice
- Whiskey
- Various types of cars and trucks
- Aircrafts of more than 15,000kg but less than 45,000kg weight
